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Launch Calendar

Upcoming Missions This Year for: Falcon

Dec 15

SpaceX CRS-13

Falcon 9 v1.2

Location

Cape Canaveral AFS SLC-40

Time

10:35 AM EST / 2017-12-15 15:35:00Z

Window

1 second

SpaceX will conduct its fourteenth overall Dragon/Falcon 9 flight to the International Space Station supporting NASA's Commercial Resupply Service (CRS) program. The company's Dragon spacecraft will be loaded with crew supplies, and experiments to be used on the orbiting lab. Delayed from Dec. 4 and Dec. 8.

Missions No Earlier Than 2018 for: Falcon

NETJan

Falcon Heavy Test Flight

Falcon Heavy

Location

Kennedy Space Center LC-39A

Time

TBD

SpaceX will launch the Heavy variant of the company's Falcon booster on its first demonstration flight. This new system uses a standard Falcon 9 core with two strap-on boosters derived from the Falcon 9 first stage for a total of 27 Merlin 1D engines firing at liftoff.

SpaceX has obtained FCC licenses effective from November 10th for a Falcon 9 launch from Kennedy Space Center. The licensing also provides for a booster landing attempt at LZ-1. The payload remains unknown, but is reportedly called codename "Zuma." On October 16, nasaspaceflight.com confirmed the launch's payload customer is Northrop Grumman. On November 16, the mission was delayed indefinitely.

GovSat-1 will be a multi-mission satellite that will use X-band and Military Ka-band frequencies on high-power and fully steerable mission beams to support multiple operations.

NETFeb

SES-12

Falcon 9 v1.2

Location

Cape Canaveral AFS SLC-40

Time

TBD

SpaceX will launch the heavy SES-12 satellite, up to now slated for an Ariane-5 launch, on a Falcon 9 vehicle in Q1 2018.

NETMar 13

CRS-14

Falcon 9 v1.2

Location

Kennedy Space Center LC-39A

Time

TBD

Window

1 second

SpaceX will conduct its fifteenth overall Dragon/Falcon 9 flight to the International Space Station supporting NASA's Commercial Resupply Service (CRS) program. The company's Dragon spacecraft will be loaded with crew supplies, and experiments to be used on the orbiting lab.

NETApr

Crew Dragon Demo 1

Falcon 9 (Crew Dragon)

Location

Kennedy Space Center LC-39A

Time

TBD

A Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) "full thrust" Falcon 9 rocket will launch the crewed variant of the Hawthorne, California-based aerospace firm's Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station on a test flight. The flight is slated to get underway from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A under NASA's Commercial Crew Program.

NET2018

SpaceX In-Flight Abort

Falcon 9 (Crew Dragon)

Location

Kennedy Space Center LC-39A

Time

TBD

SpaceX plans to conduct an uncrewed in-flight abort test of its Crew Dragon/Dragon 2 spacecraft using a Falcon 9 rocket equipped with only 3 engines to launch a Crew Dragon test vehicle to an altitude as high as Max-Q (approximately 35,000 ft. or 11 km.) Upon reaching maximum aerodynamic drag, an intentional in-flight abort will be initiated to test the spacecraft's abort system.

NET2018

STP-2

Falcon Heavy

Location

Kennedy Space Center LC-39A

Time

TBD

The Space Test Program-2 (STP-2) mission is comprised of a cluster of military and scientific research satellites for the United States Air Force (USAF). The mission is currently slated to use a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket to be launch from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A.